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This week at the Bibliotheca Hertziana:

Gernsheim Study Days: Framing the Drawing – Drawing the Frame

Online and in-person, Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, Rome, 13–15 May 2026

Organized by Tatjana Bartsch, Ariella Minden, and Johannes Röll

The 2026 Gernsheim Study Days will explore the relationship between early modern drawings, frames, and framing. Papers will consider both how the symbolic connotations associated with the frame in the early modern period functioned as part of artists’ generative creative processes as a cultural technique as well as the role that the physical act of framing drawings played within histories of collecting and reception. With this focus on the medium of drawing, this conference seeks to uncover new ways to think about the myriad semiotic potentials of the frame in the making and study of early modern art. Please follow the event online at https://vimeo.com/event/5864584

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14.00  Welcome and Opening Remarks
• Tatjana Bartsch (BHMPI) and Ariella Minden (University of St Andrews)

14.30  Section 1
Chair: Ariella Minden
• Reinier Baarsen (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), Who Drew Frames?
• Furio Rinaldi (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco), Leonardo’s Border Lines

15.50  Coffee Break

16.10  Section 2
Chair: Silvia Massa (Kunstmuseum Basel)
• Elizabeth Merrill (Ghent University), Copy, Snip, Cut, Collage: Drawing Practices in the Workshop of Lambert Lombard
• Ludovico Maria Durante (Roma, Sovrintendenza Capitolina), Abitare la soglia: La cariatide come cornice incarnata nei disegni di Cherubino Alberti e Federico Zuccari
• Helen Barr (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), Cornice / senza cornice / fuori cornice: Il libro de’ disegni di Francesco Morandini

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10.00  Section 3
Chair: Francesca Borgo (BHMPI)
• Laura Moretti (University of St Andrews), Framing the Disegno: Vincenzo Borghini’s Cultural Techniques and the Construction of the Vasarian Libro
• Vera Hendriks (The Hague, RKD — Netherlands Institute for Art History), Framing Authorship: Drawn Borders and Inscribed Frames in Eighteenth-Century Dutch Artists’ Portraits

11.20  Coffee Break

11.40  Section 4
Chair: Tatjana Bartsch
• Gudula Metze (Kupferstich-Kabinett – Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), Creative Collecting: A Group of Baroque Drawn Frames at the Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett
• Elisabeth Oy-Marra (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Le scritture ai margini: Sebastiano Resta e la doppia incorniciatura dei disegni

13.00  Lunch Break

14.00  Section 5
Chair: Anna Magnago Lampugnani (BHMPI)
• Thomas Pöpper (Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, Angewandte Kunst Schneeberg), Passage, Access, Depth: Mounting as Framing–The Window Mount in Albrecht Dürer and Michelangelo
• Giovanni Santucci (Università di Pisa), Mounting, Borders, and Meaning in the Talman Collection

15.20  Coffee Break

15.40  Section 6
Chair: Giorgio Marini (Roma, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica)
• Christoph Orth (Klassik Stiftung Weimar), Framing the Face: On the Role of Drawings in Lavater’s Ideas on Physiognomy
• Kristel Smentek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A Persian Muraqqa and Pierre-Jean Mariette’s Mounted Drawings

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10.00–13.00  Roundtable
Chair: Johannes Röll (BHMPI)